Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Jack Fadden has been around. He got started in athletics as a football and baseball player at Bridgeton (Maine) Academy, then took a two-year course in physical education at Posse Nisson in Boston. While Fadden was working in City Hospital, the head Harvard surgeon asked him to help in the College's medical room. So Jack did x-rays and physiotherapy there and kept at it during the two years he attended Harvard. After that, he went into the automobile business with ex-Governor Fuller, spent a year as trainer at Amherst (where he met Jordan), and then took...
...medical certificate was a likeness of the balding, bearded Dr. Warren. At either side was a grotesque dangling skeleton. At the bottom was a drawing of a surgeon, performing some sort of abdominal dissection upon a corpse with instruments faintly similar to oyster knives. The slashed end of a hemp rope dangled from the edge of the table. The other end of the rope was still fastened in a noose about the corpse's neck...
...from Books. Surgery on dogs was no less essential to the perfection of stomach and intestinal operations (see below). And a surgeon must learn his skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
Crate Lifter. Then Bernstein heard that Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Alcott Thompson had developed an operation which quickly restored people like himself to useful, active lives. It sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy...
...this operation been so little used? One objection offered by some surgeons is that while it increases the heart muscle's blood supply, the increase is not strong enough. Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude Shaeffer Beck invented a powder operation (using ground-up beef bone or asbestos instead of talc), then put it aside in favor of a more radical job-revamping the heart's plumbing system by an arterial graft (TIME, June...